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Stats about the Prevalence of Depression
However we choose to define depression, both its frequency and its disruption of normal life are staggering. The World Health Organization named depression ...
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Is Grief a Form of Mental Illness?
The New York Times ran a moving article about a professor whose son died from a drug overdose. There's a lot to mull over in this article, including ...
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Children's Book Character Carries His "Sadness Shield"
We all seem to need a strategy for coping with the experience of grief. In the screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where the ...
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NFL Star Junior Seau Searched for Peace
Junior Seau was well-known as a passionate, fist-pumping, emotional leader and superstar for the NFL's San Diego Chargers. In his 13-year pro football ...
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Research Proves That Men Really Don't Like Asking for Help
We've all heard jokes about the average guy's unwillingness to ask for directions, but compared to women, are men really less likely to ask for help? ...
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Why Women Are Turning to Antidepressants
A 2011 USA Today article reported that the "use of antidepressants has soared nearly 400 percent since 1988, making the medication the most frequently ...
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Psychiatrist Identifies the "Gauntlet of Silence" Among Men
In his book Invisible Men, Dr. Michael E. Addis tells the story about meeting a middle-aged man named Patrick. Although by all accounts Patrick was an ...
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Psychologist Blames Unhappiness on Uncertainty
Daniel Gilbert (a psychology professor at Harvard) drew from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index and stated that the Index showed "that Americans ...
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Depression Eased by Belief in a Caring God
A study by Rush University Medical Center in Chicago found that "belief in a concerned God can improve response to medical treatment" in patients ...
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Pastor Discovers Meaningful Way to Help Others in Pain
In an interview about his book The Folly of Prayer (IVP, 2009), author and pastor Matt Woodley shared a story about his friend Theresa. Theresa was experiencing ...
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